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Athlete Hassan runs at World Championship 5000 and 10,000 meters
8.49 pm: Sifan Hassan will run the 5000 and 10,000 meters at the world championships that start on Friday in Eugene (USA). That has been informed by her management.
Hassan previously announced that she would not run three distances, as she did at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. “In any case, I do two distances and at least the 5000 meters,” she said in the run-up to the World Cup.
FC Utrecht loses practice match to Club Brugge
6.02 pm: FC Utrecht lost to Club Brugge in a practice match. The champion of Belgium won the meeting 4-2.
Anastasios Douvikas and Mimoun Mahi scored the goals for FC Utrecht. For the Belgians, the Dutch international Noa Lang was effective.
Club Brugge will play against cup winner AA Gent in the Belgian Super Cup on Sunday.
Sick Belgian Naesen leaves Tour
2:05 p.m.: The Belgian Oliver Naesen had to leave the Tour de France in the eleventh stage. Naesen already reported to TV station before the ride sporza that he was not okay. “I have muscle pain in my back, two inflamed eyes, problems with my nose, throat and lungs. Actually all symptoms of corona, except fever. But I’m not testing positive,” he said with some surprise.
After more than 40 kilometers Naesen called it quits. This saw his team AG2R-Citroën give up a third rider in this Tour. The Frenchman Geoffrey Bouchard (corona) and the Australian Ben O’Connor (as a result of a previous crash) had already gone home earlier.
Suzuki to leave MotoGP for good after this season
12:31 pm Suzuki will leave MotoGP permanently after this season. The Japanese manufacturer had been in talks with World Cup organizer Dorna since May to have the contract, which was recently extended until 2026, dissolved. An agreement has now been reached on this.
“Suzuki is taking this step because of the current economic situation and the need to develop new technologies,” said Toshihiro Suzuki, the company’s president.
Suzuki delivered the MotoGP world champion two years ago with the Spanish motorcycle racer Joan Mir and also won the World Cup standings among the teams that year. Suzuki left MotoGP earlier in late 2011, but returned to the premier class four years later. The Spaniards Mir and Álex Rins are the driver duo of the team this season.
Olympic champion Jacobs participates in the 100 meters at the World Cup
11:40 am Lamont Marcell Jacobs will compete in the 100 meters at the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Eugene (USA). The Italian, reigning Olympic champion at this distance, has recovered sufficiently from an injury. Jacobs also won gold in the 4x100m relay at the Tokyo Games.
“The decision to participate was taken after a conversation between Jacobs and his coach Paolo Camossi. Jacobs’s preparatory internship in Beaverton was successful,” reports the Italian Athletics Federation.
After the Games, 27-year-old Jacobs rarely appeared in international competitions due to a thigh injury.
Strict rules Australian athletes at Commonwealth Games
07:38 o’clock Australian athletes will not be allowed to give close encouragement to their compatriots competing in other sports at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK. It is one of the measures being taken to minimize the risk of transmitting the coronavirus, said mission chief Petria Thomas.
Australian athletes are also required to wear face masks from the moment they leave their hotel room.
“We must take these measures to minimize the transmission of the coronavirus and other diseases,” Thomas said. “Our main goal is to ensure that our athletes arrive at the start fit and ready to perform.”
The Commonwealth Games will be held from July 28 to August 8 by the Commonwealth of Nations, ie Great Britain and most of its former colonies. It concerns about 5000 athletes from 72 countries.
Olympic silver winner misses World Championships in athletics after positive doping test
07:22 o’clock Nijel Amos will not be allowed to compete in the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Eugene (USA). The 28-year-old athlete from Botswana has been provisionally suspended after he tested positive for the banned metabolite GW1516, a product used to burn fat faster, reports the Athletics Integrity Union (AIU). The doping control was on June 4, outside competitions.
Amos won silver in the 800 meters at the 2012 London Olympics. In Eugene, he would also run that distance at the World Cup next Wednesday. Tony van Diepen participates in the 800 meters for the Netherlands.
In addition to the London Olympic silver, Amos won bronze in the 4×400 meter relay at the Tokyo Games last year. The silver then went to the Netherlands.